My site's topic is most often found (on search engines) via two obvious search words. Anyone with the same topic would know this. I haven't been successful at getting a top 10-20 ranking on Google or Yahoo for those words. But with basically no effort I've achieved a 4th place ranking on MSN. I notice this for the best possible reason--traffic to my site has increased and it's easy to see where it's coming from.

In the past, most of my traffic has been driven by the fact that Yahoo had indexed the "deep content". I have a content rich site and when someone is looking for something more specific than the two most obvious search words--Yahoo gives me a pretty fair shake.

Interestingly the sites ranked ahead of me on Yahoo and Google are generally not nearly as content rich as my site. On MSN, the sites ahead of me are commercial and easily more content rich than my sites.

I have a second site that is not so focused (who knows what the top two or three search words should be?). MSN and Yahoo seem better at indexing the content that's deep (not shown on the front page). Since there's no real theme--this is the main way this site gets traffic (aside from loyalty). Google knows I'm there but doesn't rank me nearly as high for the same searches as Yahoo or MSN. MSN generally ranks me highest.

So,
MSN gives my "home" page and my site in general a better shake and gives me a good ranking for the most typical search words. In general MSN ranks me highest.

Yahoo indexes the old news and specific topics better and generates traffic from more specific searches but still doesn't feature me for the most common search words.

And Google can find me but just generally doesn't rank me as well--not nearly as well actually, for any search that doesn't include my domain name.

Not really looking for help--just providing the info and wondering if there is a XOOPS pattern or explanation here.

bump. One bump then I'll go away.

"<<Selection in Document>>" appears on all pages of my site, below the last center block. When I use Firefox's "view source" this is what I see.

<!-- End display center blocks -->
<div id="content"> <<Selection in Document>></div>

Anyone know where this is located and/or what I dumb thing I may have done to caue it? The site appears to be working fine otherwise.
Thanks,
Brian

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking--but if you want some wysiwyg capabilities for editing articles or news--the spaw editor will work. It's worked fine for me with the wfsections module--but I believe it can work separately????

A few notes about this.
1)Wfsections generates some error messages at the bottom of my personal/experimental site. I don't mind on this site--but I wouldn't want to look so amateurish on my other site. I don't think the problem is with the spaw editor--Wfsections is still a little beta.

2)The spaw editor doesn't work (for me) in netscape/firefox. Works fine in IE though. I don't like to use IE, so I downloaded a firefox extension that lets me open a given link in IE.

3)wysiwyg has it's limitations and html isn't really all that hard. You're going to end up writing a little html at some point--why not just get your hands dirty.

4)I have generated some content in FrontPage. (wysiwg for dummies) and pasted it in. Tables can be a little tricky. Once you get them working right in a XOOPS article--it pays to make a template from that file. After you've got your template though--it ends up being easier just to open it in notepad and edit it that way.(You'll probably want a little color picker program, too--that's mainly what I use frontpage for).

5)Finally--lots of modules in XOOPS let you import your wysiwyg-generated html stuff in as an article.

Brian

Thanks Herko. Found plenty of stuff--off to see if I can make it work.
Brian

http://www.x7chat.com/download.php

Notice the remarks about an untested mod (authoriztion?) mod for xoops.

I'd really like a good chat setup--and searching XOOPS doesn't seem to reveal a lot of users that are happy with the mods available for download on xoops.org.

Anyone know anything about this?
Brian

I know I've seen this somewhere, maybe there's a module for it? Search for terms above revealing nothing.

Here's my problem. I've got Html pages that are still generating traffic from search engines. I've moved the content into "sections" articles but, for now, also left the html pages. I want to redirect search engine traffic to the new content within xoops.

No problem right--just set up a redirect? I'm using xcontroller to do this--and the long addresses are freaking it out--rendering it worthless (xoops is in a subdirectory under my domain--so with all the subdirectories under that, gets pretty long).

So is there a way to define simpler URL's from within xoops? While I'm doing this--is there a way to get Google and/or Yahoo to pick up the simpler URL's?

Not security--first thing I tried was lax security settings. Bear in mind I hadn't changed anything except for the extensions--firefox had been working fine with the site. Wasn't a cache issue either--kept clearing that. Turned firewall off so that wasn't it. The problem was shared by a few other firefox users who couldn't log on to mozzillazine (but all of us could log-on as usual with IE).

Here's how it went:
Firefox .92 worked fine.

Then I installed extensions--everything worked but log-in.

Deleted everything. (getting rid of extensions is a little bit of a pain until you learn how--the extension manager isn't very good at the uninstall part).

Firefox, fresh install worked fine.

Got bold and reinstalled extensions--couldn't login again.

Uninstall, delete, Firefox, fresh install--works fine.

So far haven't installed extensions to find out which one it was--frankly don't have time to mess it up again--would probably just go back to IE which I'd like to avoid.
Brian

Just upgraded to Firefox 0.9.2. Great browser but I couldn't log-in to sites like xoops.org or most other sites that required login (including my XOOPS sites and the mozilla support site). Could log in fine with IE.

This is a plugin (Mozilla calls them extensions) problem. I don't know which one, sorry. If you uninstall your plugins then delete your mozilla profile under "application data" (deleting the user profile is the most critical part), then uninstall and reinstall firefox--it will work again.

I am going to install my plugins one each day for a week or so and hopefully I'll find the particular culprit.

If you have lots of users, I'm guessing someone who uses your site will enounter this--I ran into several people asking the same question while I was searching for answers.
Brian

Xoops is working for me on two sites. Really well. As someone who is a stronger "content generator" than web designer--I have to say XOOPS is a wonderful tool.

My progress has been from HTML to Frontpage to PostNuke to Xoops. I would go back to any of the methods except for a website dependent on "Frontpage extension" ("Frontpage entrapments and limitations" would be a better name). . But I've got to admit I did like wysiwyg.

I can't imagine abandoning XOOPS for one of my websites (local college sports related) but now WebGUI has caught my eye for a more personal project.

They do a great job of selling the plus side of their package--I'm wondering if anyone here can testify to the downside or problems with WebGUI?
Brian